| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 |   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 |   <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 |   %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 | 
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-partitioning-creatingpartition">
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| 9 |   <?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html"?>
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| 10 | 
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| 11 |   <title>Creating a New Partition</title>
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| 12 | 
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| 13 |   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
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| 14 |   href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
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| 15 |   xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
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| 16 | 
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| 17 |   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
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| 18 |   href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
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| 19 |   xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='b'])"/>
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| 20 | 
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| 21 |   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
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| 22 |   href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
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| 23 |   xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c'])"/>
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| 24 | 
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| 25 |   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
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| 26 |   href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
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| 27 |   xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
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| 28 | 
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| 29 |   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
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| 30 |   href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
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| 31 |   xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
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| 32 | 
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| 33 |   <para>On a Sparc system we have to create a special partition first. This
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| 34 |   partition is called <quote>Whole disk</quote>, and must be the 3rd partition
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| 35 |   on the disk.</para>
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| 36 | 
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| 37 |   <para>The other partitions are virtual slices of this <quote>Whole disk</quote>
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| 38 |   partition. But there are some limitations on the first partion of
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| 39 |   <filename class="devicefile">hda</filename> or <filename
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| 40 |   class="devicefile">sda</filename> on the system. This partition must be less
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| 41 |   than 2 gigabytes and this partition must be root.</para>
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| 42 | 
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| 43 | </sect1>
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